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, , Citation Hideki Takagi and Ross Sanders 2000 Phys. World 13 (9) 39 DOI 10.1088/2058-7058/13/9/30

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1 Mie University, Kamihama 1515, Tsu, Mie, 514-8705, Japan

2 Department of Physical Education, Sports and Leisure Studies, University of Edinburgh, Cramond Road North, Edinburgh EH4 6JD, UK

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Abstract

Competitive swimming is a struggle against the forces that act on athletes as they move through the water. This so-called "resistive drag" opposes the motion of any body that travels though a fluid, such as water and air. As water is about 800–1000 times more dense than air, resistive drag is a much greater limitation in swimming than it is in land-based sports.

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